Fake Red Hat security update [LWN.net]

Fake Red Hat security update

Posted Oct 25, 2004 13:41 UTC (Mon) by haydentech (guest, #22504)
Parent article: Fake Red Hat security update

I swear, if any scammers ever bothered to learn correct English grammar or the art of spellchecking, we'd all be in trouble. Fortunately, they seem obstinately opposed to those ideas.

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Fake Red Hat security update

Posted Oct 26, 2004 0:35 UTC (Tue) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

Or learn how to companies write their own name, or bother to even make the
message remotely similar to real Red Hat advisories. If they were smart
they would have made the "update" an RPM. I see no reason not to and the
fact the patch was a tarfile with a Makefile and a script would be plenty
to tell it is fake by itself.

Fake Red Hat security update

Posted Oct 28, 2004 8:43 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

doesn't red hat sign their packages? If so a fake RPM would have been detected.

Fake Red Hat security update

Posted Oct 29, 2004 21:52 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

They're not opposed, they just aren't very smart.

It's fortunate for society that the Hollywood criminal mastermind is largely a myth. Most criminals are stupid; smart people have other avenues available to achieve their goals (good job, etc.).